If you have read many of these posts, you know that this place has always been about video game ephemera, from actual development talk to musings on old titles. More recently these posts have also ...

The 90’s era arcade game that I have been working on for some time is finally starting to gel. The shaders that were very difficult to get right are nearly perfect. The pixel alignment script that ...

Best Games - PaRappa the Rapper Hit buttons in time with the music. That’s the pitch. That’s PaRappa. It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be fun. For a time, rhythm games were the biggest thing in the...

Work continues slowly, but slowly, on my 2D pixel art game that is neither 2D nor pixel art. I redesigned and rebuilt the player character model and started the process of rigging it for animation...

I know it’s a cliche line to say that there is always more than one way to accomplish anything. I think that might be especially true for computer graphics. Of course, there are as many paths and p...

Best Games - The Irritating Maze The Irritating Maze is not a complex game. It is not a game that defines or extends a genre. You will not find a compelling narrative or ingenious mechanics here. ...

Today I submitted the last of my ‘one story a week for six weeks’ stories.  I’m gonna take a little break from writing (like a couple days… not like a break break) so I think this is all the words ...

I only have one more story to write for the ‘write one short story every weekend jam type thing’ that I have been doing. I will be glad to be done, since it is slightly stressful coming up with som...

Quite a few months ago, I bought the full Affinity suite of products. Before you ask, of course they were on sale.  I have used Affinity Designer for a few years now, but up until recently, I haven...